NZ First leader and Foreign Minister Winston Peters used his party’s annual meeting in Palmerston North to announce a plan to make KiwiSaver compulsory, with employer and employee contributions rising to 10 percent, offset by tax cuts.
Peters coupled the economic pitch with pro-NZ themes, including moves to make English an official language, tighter immigration rules with a mandatory values pledge, and fierce criticism of Labour, the Greens, Te Pāti Māori and “woke” ideology.
He railed against transgender policies, DEI in schools, and foreign ownership of New Zealand assets, while predicting a “massive political victory” for his party in the 2026 election.
Over 1000 in Palmerston North public meeting today. We had the main floor packed and needed two seperate overflow rooms live-streaming.
Great turn out and great reception from the crowd. pic.twitter.com/49FfN3Tnme
— Winston Peters (@winstonpeters) September 7, 2025
We are New Zealand First. pic.twitter.com/rdwtHDrSqT
— New Zealand First (@nzfirst) September 7, 2025
All quite positive, lots of carrots, but making KiwiSaver compulsory is in the end exactly what the bankster cabal has prescribed.
The toilet police! Jfc, this is idiotic.
KiwiSaver- another route for the J3wi$h Banksters to steal, seize, Force Majeur or impound your money via de-banking or routing the same to another bankster account in ‘Greater Israel’…!
I don’t see how creating savings can be a bad thing.
GO NZF
That really depends on who is managing it. This sort of thing usually plays to finance company and banks benefit, like everything else, these days. If it were state owned and sensibly operated that might be different but from what I have seen that wont be the case.
New Zealand First, but still supporting apartheid, eh Peters.
In 1974, the Labour government introduced a compulsory superannuation scheme requiring both employees and employers to contribute to a personal retirement savings fund. It was forward-thinking and similar in structure to modern KiwiSaver.
Piggy Muldoon and the National Party fiercely opposed it, famously using the “Dancing Cossacks” ad to suggest the scheme was a step toward Soviet-style socialism.
After winning the 1975 election, Muldoon wasted no time. Just days after taking office, he announced the scheme would be abolished and contributions refunded. He even declared this publicly before Parliament had passed any repeal legislation, leading to the landmark constitutional case Fitzgerald v Muldoon, where the court ruled that Muldoon had unlawfully suspended a law without parliamentary consent.
The scheme was scrapped after just 37 weeks. If it had continued, estimates suggest it could have grown to $240 billion today—potentially transforming New Zealand’s retirement landscape.
And the useless bunt got a State Funeral
Blah blah blah….your alliance partner National have allowed rich foreigners to buy/build homes worth $5M, where’s the criticism of them, not to mention this appalling Gene Tech horror show that will gut what’s left of our clean green, organic image and damage exports? Yeah, nah, not buying what you are selling NZF. As for Labour/Greens the other side of the globalist shit show that’s dominated NZ politics. I’ll stick to new parties as a long term investment in New Zealand.
Is there anyone else who a sick to death of the ever ending crap churned out by parliament year after year that increases regulation, compliance, tax, excessive over spending that we never needed 50 years ago. This applies to all members of parliament who do not have a clue as to the effects and costs we have removed from our income.
If parliament was a private entity, they would be in the high court for trading insolvent, employment court for abusive behaviour. Back to the high court for fraud, deception, district court for stalking people by tracking their movements. Again back to the high court for causing harm and death by medical experimental drugs.
I would rather have a team of people making stuff for local and export, providing tourism than a bunch of accountants to work out what to pay in GST, PAYE, Kiwisaver, ACC etc, etc, etc and more etc this week.
Lawyers to defend section blah blah of the Complete Bloody Nonsense act. 2025.
New Zealand used to make nearly everything we needed here from trains to track, TV’s and radios. Housing and power stations. Inexpensive foods. Road were built by government workers and not private contractors.
Dance around the real issues all you like, but the real problem is this….
Government Net Debt $175.5 billion June 2024 42.5% of GDP
Government Debt (End of 2024) $175.464 billion December 2024 $45.2% of GDP (record high)
External Debt $412.1 billion Q1 2025 Gross external obligations
Household Debt $393.8 billion August 2024 $218,770 per household Residential Lending (Mortgages)
And that is how a beehive morphes into a waspnest and becomes headquarters for extortion and surveillance.
Blah blah blah 🤬. These guys are full of bullshit.
I like all this but honestly I don’t like the KiwiSaver thing. I am late 50s, only earn a meagre amount (under $200) a week and I just can’t spare anything. I am not able to work a full time job as I have problems standing for long periods or even sitting. I develop extremely sore elbows and knees if anything is overdone, strained or repetitive. And no, I’m not overweight. I am quite slim actually but have a condition called EDS. I don’t want to go to WINZ and ask for any help as I have my dignity to preserve. So yeah I won’t be able to afford any KiwiSaver contributions. 🙁
Right then. In an economy where 100 year old Smith City and Kathmandu hasn’t got enough trade, builders are out of work, people left the country, a glut of housing for rent and sale, Peters decides to divert what little money citizens have away from the economy into the goverments bank account and call it saving for the future when really it is to totally finish off all trade and lead us into total poverty.
So blind are all politicians to the reality almost every citizen wakes up to every day.
Excellent idea really. Up the contribution (theft) to 10%, so citizens have less every week for food, heating etc. watch as people starve or freeze do death and no longer actually need kiwi saver superannuation.